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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Doha?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antigua Guatemala for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Antigua Guatemala’s own page.

Choose Doha for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Doha’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antigua Guatemala 6, Doha 45: Doha leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Doha 55: Doha leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Doha 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Doha 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Doha 7: Antigua Guatemala leads by 71 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Doha 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Doha 60: Doha leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Doha 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Doha 60: Doha leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Doha 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Doha 30: Doha leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Doha 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Doha.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Doha
38match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antigua Guatemala in July

25 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaDoha

Where the figures come from

Antigua Guatemala has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antigua Guatemala: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Guatemala Aeropuertola Aurora (23.5 km from centre). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDoha
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123999
Elevation1,582 m0 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDoha
City population59,0911,186,023
People per km²-8,985
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.